Travelling In Your Own Microworld
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When we travel, where do we really go? Author Will Self gives a fascinating talk at the Google campus about the nature of travel and psychogeography
After a quick reading about his run-in with American immigration, Self goes on to discuss what actually happens when we go travelling - how we often reduce our experience of a place down to a microworld, where we have little real sense of that place's size, geography, history - indeed, where we barely know anything about it. The speed of travel has brought about this fundamental dislocation from our travel locations, and Self gives a great explanation of the topic that makes it seem deeply obvious and yet unarguably important too.
Self and legendary illustrator Ralph Steadman recently published a collection of their long-running Independent newspaper columns in the book PsychoGeography, which tackles "the vexed relationship between psyche and place in a globalised world".
You can read more about Self at his official site will-self.com, which I happen to co-edit too.
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